European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday february 9, 1992tojo linked to Wii sex slavery Tokyo a world War ii government documents obtained Friday show that Gen. Hideki Tojo Japan a wartime prime minister was directly involved in forcing asian women to work As sex slaves for japanese soldiers. Documents unearthed from military archives by an opposition legislator include a Telegram addressed to Tojo also then War minister reporting results of health examinations of chinese korean filipino and japanese women who were forced into virtual sex slavery. The government recently was forced to acknowledge for the first time its direct involvement in forcing korean women to work in brothels for japanese soldiers during the nations wartime expansion through Asia. The latest evidence shows that women from other countries also were forced to be sex slaves. Following the latest disclosures chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato told reporters Friday that Japan May expand its investigation to include chinese and other asian women As Well As koreans. A copy of the Telegram a dated March 12, 1942, and addressed to Tojo by the commander of the japanese Imperial army stationed in Taiwan a reads new world will Greet cosmonaut Moscow apr when cosmonaut Sergei a Kalev finally gets Back Down to Earth next month a after spending seven months longer than head planned in space a he May Well want to crawl Back into his spacecraft. The country he blasted off from does no to exist any More. His Hometown has a new name. Economic reforms Are ravaging russian living standards. Space engineers Are threatening to strike. Even the Agency that sent him into space has been broken up. What a a spaceman to do a the is hanging 250 Miles above the surface of the planet and watching everything from the Point of View of an interested but absolutely helpless participant a wrote the newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda. After months of being left up in the air Kri Kalev at least has a firm return Date. Deputy flight director Viktor Blagoev told the associated press on Friday that Kri Kalev along with fellow cosmonaut Alexander Volkov who joined him later would come Home March 23. That would bring his total time in space to 311 Days about two months Short of the 366-Day world record held by fellow cosmonaut Musa Sanarov. For Kri Kalev its been a Long strange trip. He and fellow cosmonaut Anatoly arts Barsky took off May 18 from the soviet unions sprawling Bai Konur cosm drome in Kazakhstan. They were scheduled to return aug. 30 after a routine three month Mission on the space station Mir. But 12 Days before they were to land came the August coup that set in motion the disintegration of the soviet Union. The Mission s Landing site was claimed by Kazakhstan and the space Agency Gla Kosmos was sent to the chopping Block. Officials put off the cosmonauts return until october cosmonaut Sergei Kri Kalev by october however the soviet Union was in the final stages of its collapse. In a Compromise with Kazakhstan Russia got use of the Landing site in Exchange for sending an inexperienced kazakh to the space station in place of Kri Kaleva a successor. The kazakh cosmonaut returned with arts Barsky who was replaced by Volkov. But Kri Kalev 34, got no word on when he would be brought Back. A i have a question a Kri Kalev said plaintively from space at that Point. Is it True the russians Are going to sell the Mir space station. Along with us a Kri Kalev May be relieved to get Back on solid ground but its a whole new world he s coming Home to. His Hometown of Leningrad is now called St. Petersburg. His official monthly salary of 500 rubles is now far less than the average russian wage and Worth Only about $9.60 at the widely used unofficial Exchange rate. With the country a Economy in shambles space officials while denying any intention of Selling the space station have put much of the space program up for Sale. A regarding a request received from South theater Headquarters to dispatch 50 native taiwanese Comfort women to Borneo i ask your permission to Send the following three selected by the military police As Brothel  a Comfort women was the term used in official documents to describe the sex slaves. Hideko Ito a socialist legislator found the documents in the defense Agency Library and released them to journalists. Ito said the documents she found show that military police overseas were involved in rounding up women. She cited a report by a military doctor in Shanghai thanking the police known As Kem Eitai for their efforts to find women who were free of venereal disease a forcing the women to have sex with soldiers 20 to 30 times a Day was the same As torturing them to death Over and Over again Quot Ito said. Although the military brothels Are common knowledge the government Only acknowledged the army s involvement with korean women last month just before prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa visited South Korea. The government previously had claimed the brothels were run privately. Canada s health system catches financial cold Toronto apr Canadas so billion health system which has provided free medical care to everyone regardless of income for 20 years is grappling with growing costs that have forced layoffs and reduced the number of Hospital Beds. Frequently cited As a Model for the United states Canadian medicare consumes 9 percent of Canadas Gross National product. Canadians have been willing to pay for it because they View free health care As a Basic right. President Bush recently dismissed the Canadian system As a a cure worse than the  Canada s National budget for health care has grown from $40 billion to $60 billion in the past five years making it Canadas single largest Industry. About a third of most Canadian provinces budgets Are devoted to health care. In Ontario for example medicare ate up $17 billion of $52,7 billion in spending last year. But the recession has been a Large dose of reality for government and Consumers alike. In an Effort to rein in costs hospitals Are laying off employees and imposing ceilings on doctors salaries. A the health care system has reached a Fork in the Road whereby something that huge needs to readjust itself to the new economic realities said Bob Bell director of the health and social services practice of the consulting firm Ernst and Young. When a person receives medical care in Canada he or she never gets a Bill. The patient merely presents his or her health insurance card and doctors and hospitals collect pre determined fees from the government. Hospital patients do pay for such extras As private rooms Ana telephones. Health care is a provincial responsibility but the Federal government traditionally has shared the Cost. Under legislation passed last year however the Federal share has been Frozen at 1989-90 Levels and eventually will be phased out. Beth Witney of the Ontario Hospital association said there could be 10,000 to 13,000 layoffs in Canadas most populous province this year because of the funding decrease. Various remedies Are being discussed. Quebec is considering a $5 user fee each time a person visits a doctor or Hospital to Cut abuse. . Adoption lawyer accused of smuggling peruvian children Lima Peru apr an arrest warrant has been issued for a . Lawyer accused of smuggling children out of Peru. Special prosecutor Gladys Hernandez on Friday accused James Gagel who specialized in adoptions and two peruvian lawyers of illegally Selling More than 4,000 peruvian babies to foreign couples. Hernandez said All three had fled Peru. Their whereabouts was unknown. A this Man had a staff of child snatch ers which is a new Type of illegal work and he received the children. From All parts of the country a Hernandez said. A Man who answered Gagelis Tele phone Friday said that the lawyer had moved and that he did no to know How to Contact him. Gagel s Home state was not reported. Attracted by relatively Quick and easy adoptions thousands of foreign couples mostly from the United states have flocked to Peru in recent years. Lawyers fees for arranging adoptions of peruvian children can Range from $6,000 to $9,000 per child attorneys have said. Local Media have recently spotlighted adoption scandals in which lawyers and judges allegedly were bribed and children were kidnapped from poor families. Put dirty industries in poor lands top economist says London apr the chief economist of the world Bank advocated exporting a dirty industries Quot and toxic waste to poorer countries where complaints about pollution Are less Likely a British Magazine reported Friday. A a five always thought that under populated countries in Africa Are vastly under polluted a Lawrence Summers was quoted As saying in an internal memo dated dec. 12, according to an article in the economist. A just Between you and me  the world beak be encouraging More migrations of the dirty industries to Lac less developed countries a the memo was quoted As saying. The world Bank said the views expressed in sum Mersy memo do not represent the position of the Bank which was set up to encourage economic and social development. A Protection of the environment is one of the world Bank a Basic objectives and the Bank does not condone the Transfer of toxic wastes or other pollutants to other countries a the Bank said in a statement issued by its Washington Headquarters. Summers had intended his memo to provoke debate and Sharpen the analysis in a forthcoming world Bank report on prospects for the global Economy the statement said. A emr. Summers deeply regrets the obvious misunderstandings his memo has caused and apologizes for any misconceptions it May have generated a the Bank said. The economist quoted the memo As saying a i think the economic logic behind dumping a Load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. Hie demand for a clean environment for aesthetic and health reasons rises with income he was quoted As saying. A the concern Over an agent that causes a one in a Mullion change in the Odds of prostate cancer is obviously going to be higher in a country where people survive to get prostate cancer than in a country where the under-5 mortality is 200 per thousand a the memo was quoted As saying